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I have just seen someone else post about it and now I have done a search and cannot find any details..HOW do you grow baby corn. I am unable to eat regular corn, but could eat baby corn.I have just learned about a whole new crop, I thought it was just an exotic plant I could not grow here.

I have a neice that has krones disease and she can eat the baby corn, and can eat what is called shoe peg corn. I remember reading on this site a corn that makes a nice 'baby' corn' but could not find it just now. If you find the name of either, please let me know. Shoe peg corn is pretty good too. I never thought of growing her some corn til you asked about it. Jo

*We had heard that this salad bar staple was called baby corn, so we searched on that term to figure out its origin. We soon discovered that those tiny corncobs aren't genetically mutated dwarf ears of corn -- they're just immature ears of regular corn* …..more info at link above

*Every salad bar regular is familiar with these mysteriously tiny and sweet little ears. Believe it or not, baby corn is actually regular corn that is harvested early while the ears are tiny. Because this crop is so labor-intensive, requiring handpicking, it is not commonly a United States crop; rather, these tender morsels are the fruit of numerous Asian countries, including Thailand and Japan. For those states who cannot grow this delicious crop outdoors, it can be grown year-round in a greenhouse.*……………more info at link

sounds like all you have to do is grow some corn and pick it early maybe we will try this and see how it taste......

hugs

rose.....off to figure out if you have to pickle those baby corns to have them taste yummy like in a salad bar......

*An heirloom variety of sweet corn with kernels tightly formed on the cob that do not grow in straight rows but irregular, jagged groupings. Named for the small wooden pegs that held shoe soles in place during the 1800's, Shoepeg Corn has small and narrow shaped kernels that are white in color, providing a slighter sweeter, milky flavor than the traditional yellow sweet corn kernels.*

*Harvest your own. Pick baby corn 1 or 2 days after the silks emerge. The ideal ear will be 2 to 4 inches long and about ½ inches in diameter. Silking of corn ears occurs over a 2 to 4 week period on each plant. Harvest baby corn every 2 to 3 days during that time. If you want some ears on your corn plant to mature to full size, leave the ears at the top of the plant to gain maturity and harvest the ears below as baby corn.*

Here is a real good article about baby corn. It's a pdf file from the pnw. Don't know what your weather is like, except cold. I've got some corn that is not going to make big ears, maybe this is a way to salvage it!

WELL WELL WELL..... DH has almost finished the irrigation system, and SO perhaps it is time to get going on these.I cannot eat a lot of things because or a colitis I got from radiation treatment, and corn is a bad one.But these baby corns sound fun'Corn is grown here a lot, I am thinking I MIGHT be a bit late, but will go and get some seeds today.... OH KEN........are you busy

GWN, I have been growing Silver Queen, which is a hybrid, and tried the bit of pulling the ears before they are fertilized. Well, it doesn't work, at least with hybrid corn. It puts out the silk, gets fertilized, then it makes the ears!

So, I started hunting for a corn that would make the baby corn ears. I found CHIRES variety. It puts up 3 to 5 stalks with 5 to 12 ears per stalk. Sounds sweet. If you leave the corn on the stalk to dry, makes a good popcorn too. Now to find a seed co. that has it in stock!

well i dont know if these are normal corn that you pick early or if it has more per stalk and maybe a smaller plant but the seeds are small for corn im doing an experiment with spacing doing 4 ,9 and 16 per sq

I saw those on Reimers site but they didn't give variety or # of ears per stalk. Let us know how they do. Different articles say different things. I guess the only way to know for sure is for us to grow our own and report back!

I don't know when your first frost is, but you have time to prepare! Maybe a teepee type hoop house(don't know how tall this corn get either) just some way to prevent the early frost from nipping the corn.

GWN .....i came across this video today and thought of you and growing baby corn......this lady grew some for Asian Stir- Fry & Salads.....she shows the corn and explains some about growing them....be sure to look in the comments below because someone ask where she got the seeds and she answers them......